Owner

Current status

Detailed Description

Apache Jakarta Commons HttpClient is obsolete. Upstream project is
end of life, and is no longer being developed. It has been replaced
by the Apache HttpComponents project in its HttpClient and HttpCore
modules, which offer better performance and more flexibility
[1].

Apache Jakarta Commons HttpClient software packages are intended to be
eventually removed from Fedora, but are kept in Fedora for some
additional, indeterminate time for various reasons including
maintaining backwards compatibility. In order to prevent new packages
from depending on these packages, they are marked as deprecated.

As of time of submission of this change proposal, 29 Fedora components
still Require or BuildRequire Apache Jakarta Commons HttpClient
packages, therefore immediate retirement of these packages is not
feasible at this point.

Benefit to Fedora

Packages of obsolete Apache Jakarta Commons HttpClient software will be clearly and explicitly
marked as deprecated. Other packages in Fedora will not be able to
add dependencies on deprecated packages (that includes Requires,
BuildRequires, Recommends, Suggests, etc.). This applies both for
updates of existing packages and new packages added to Fedora. This
in turn will make it easier to gradually remove dependencies on
deprecated packages and finally remove deprecated Apache Jakarta Commons HttpClient software from
Fedora.

Scope

Proposal owners: add special virtual provides deprecated() to all packages built from jakarta-commons-httpclient source component.